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:Little Mark Bass II

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vsmack

Mar 19, 2012
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#1
Hey everyone. My first day in. Just joined. Can anyone help regarding my Little Mark Bass II head. Completely stopped working twice at two concerts. Lost money. I'm not a gear head. No one in my city wants to touch it with a ten foot pole to repair. One repair guy who's been repairing amps for 30 + years says lighter is not better. He said Ampeg is the way to go even though it is heavier. Is there a number to Mark Bass to speak to someone live for tech support. Sorry for the long question. I'm a little desperate. My only gear. Peace.
 
#2
What was your exact set up when you had problems? I'm assuming you had 'thermal' shutdown and that the amp was fine after it restarted? I have a LMII that has worked fine since day one, and even though its no longer my gigging amp, I didn't have any problems. Usually these kind of things happen when your cabinets fall below the minimum impedance load the amp wants to see.
 
#3
vsmack said:
Hey everyone. My first day in. Just joined. Can anyone help regarding my Little Mark Bass II head. Completely stopped working twice at two concerts. Lost money. I'm not a gear head. No one in my city wants to touch it with a ten foot pole to repair. One repair guy who's been repairing amps for 30 + years says lighter is not better. He said Ampeg is the way to go even though it is heavier. Is there a number to Mark Bass to speak to someone live for tech support. Sorry for the long question. I'm a little desperate. My only gear. Peace.
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Live tech support? I don't think they have that. You can go to the Markbass website and send them an email and also send a private message on this forum to Peter Murray (works for Markbass).
 
#4
I went upstairs to see if it will turn on. It won't turn on at all. I bought it brand new about a year and a half ago. I know it is no longer manufactured. I probably bought one of the last bunch of that model.
 
#6
If you bought it new a year and a half ago, then go back to GC and have them look it up in their database. It should still be under Warranty and IIRC, there's still the replacement warranty. I'd leave it in the car and go in with the serial # written down and have them look it up. After they find it in the database, then let them know that there's something wrong with it.
 
#10
The fan on my LMII has recently started racing, but assuming it's just dust I've blown into the fan and it's been fine. It's a workhorse, I use it as the house amp at the church where I play and it's seen a lot of miles over the past several years and always performed well. I'd take yours to GC like someone above suggested and see about your warranty, might be cheaper to just have them replace it.
 
#11
The first time it went out on me I tried something different to get more of a hi mid punch I added a boss equalizer pedal GEB-7. Line out from the pedal into the front input of the head. Line out of my bass into the input of the equalizer. Should I have put that pedal in the back where it says return or send effect? I was just experimenting. Looks like I messed things up big time!
 
#12
vsmack said:
The first time it went out on me I tried something different to get more of a hi mid punch I added a boss equalizer pedal GEB-7. Line out from the pedal into the front input of the head. Line out of my bass into the input of the equalizer. Should I have put that pedal in the back where it says return or send effect? I was just experimenting. Looks like I messed things up big time!
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Pedals are usually pretty comfortable in front of your amp's input rather than in a loop, unless you've pushed the EQ up so far that you've overloaded the input tremendously. You might just have a faulty unit or one with a bad fuse.
 

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